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    England, 1837: Viserys Targaryen, Duke of Dragonstone, has died without male heirs. The entire Targaryen family gathers for the reading of Viserys’s will, with the exception of Rhaenyra, the rebellious daughter who fled to America amid scandal with a wealthy entrepreneur. Over Alicent, Viserys's widow, looms the shadow of Daemon Targaryen, Viserys’s younger brother, the next Duke of Dragonstone and new master of her fate. But things do not always go as expected.

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    25 Aug 2025

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    alicent hightower grew up watching princess rhaenyra targaryen of valyria from a distance; through headlines, scandals, and her head-of-the-global-council father's word-of-mouth. in adulthood, she's assigned to oversee the peaceful transition of power in valyria to find that rhaenyra targaryen is precisely as intractable as the media and her father promised—

    and far, far more dangerous to the order alicent has built her entire life around.

    (or; a modern royalty au with political optics, assassinations, absolutely no geographical accuracy, and a doomed sense of professionalism)

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    07 Jul 2025

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    Everything about Alicent is rage inducing. The way she’s so awkward she can barely make eye contact, the way her hands shake when they're together in the same room, the way she looks at Rhaenyra like she’s the first person she’s seen in years. Oh, yeah, and the way she locked her in a freezing underground bunker.

    BUNKER AU

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    23 Mar 2025

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    And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.

     

    After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).

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    12 Jan 2025

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    hoping to curry favor with the prime minister, otto hightower arranges a marriage between his daughter and the pm's own. neither woman is truly consulted on the matter. alicent is anxious and frightened, sick at the idea of betraying her faith. she has no clue how her betrothed feels; they've only met the one time.

    (arranged marriage au)

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    28 Dec 2024